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Sep 15, 2011 · A local government drive in the 1990s under Bo Xilai – the high-profile politician who now heads Chongqing – for more parks, more skyscrapers and a better infrastructure transformed Dalian from...
Jul 4, 2023 · Dalian is a clean and green city. The city places great emphasis on environmental protection, and its efforts have been recognized with various awards. Dalian has a thriving art scene.
Jul 11, 2019 · This paper reviews the unique planning history of Dalian and the challenges the city faces regarding its contested heritage, with a special focus on the case of Dongguan Street, which is a colonial legacy without any official designated status.
- Yang Liu, Karine Dupre, Xin Jin, David Weaver
- 2020
- A Billion-Dollar Metropolis
- Development Aggression
- Forbidden Land
- Redirecting Rivers
Located at Clark Special Freeport Zone in Capas and Bamban, NCC is a 607 billion pesos (US$11.8 billion) metropolis touted as the country’s first “climate-change resilient” city. This resilience is rooted in the master plan governing the NCC’s entire economy, said Vince Dizon, chair of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA). At its h...
But Andre Ortega, a research fellow from UG who did a field investigation of areas covered by NCC, said the project was a classic case of development aggression. Satellite images would bear him out. In the course of 18 months, NCC contractors managed to turn hectares of green into concrete. It’s why Ortega and his team began countermapping the deve...
But when NCC kick-started development in 2017, productive rice fields like those of "Michael" in Sitio Kamatis were abruptly flattened to make way for concrete roads. The sitiois the main site of the ongoing construction for Phase 1, or the National Government Administrative Center. The rice crops in Michael’s paddies were nearly ripe for harvest w...
In retracing the residents’ geographical memories, the research team also found that NCC’s contractors had redirected the natural flow of Cutcut and Marimla rivers to make way for a 1.4-kilometer river park. According to the NCC master plan, altering the rivers’ flow based on a 500-year flood projection maximizes the socioeconomic value while minim...
Dalian (/ d ɑː ˈ l j ɛ n / dah-LYEN) [5] is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, [6] and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin).
Dalian has improved it's Average health of urban vegetation when compared to Global Average and also improved it's Urban green space per capita when compared to previous year. Within Central East Asia, 76.9% of cities are ranked lower than Dalian.
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Jun 17, 2024 · Building a modern marine city is a key initiative in transforming Dalian into a pilot zone for industrial structure optimization and economic and social development. Dalian, located by the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, boasts a 2,211-kilometer-long coastline, the longest in China.
